Is it just me or does Flash CS5.5 crash more when…

Is it just me or does Flash CS5.5 crash more when its trying to save a recovery file? Thats my hunch. I’ll usually be copying and pasting a rather simple movieclip into another file, and I’m guessing during the copy process it starts saving a “RECOVER_” version or it already is saving that file in [...]

AS3 Face Recognition

This article (and tutorial) is the first I’ve heard of face recognition using Flash, although I’m not sure why I’m at all surprised considering I have no idea about the complexities of what goes into recognizing a face. So if some other coding language can do it, than why not Actionscript too.  I’m guessing the [...]

Free Accelerometer Tutorial with Actionscript 3, Flash CS5 and Device Central

Here’s a relatively short tutorial on using the new Accelerometer code in Actionscript 3 to create a simple tilt game where a ball potentially falls into a hole. This could be ported out to either the iPhone or Android, or any touch enabled device that Flash Player 10.1 runs on. Example files for this tutorial [...]

New Actionscript 3 Tutorial: Strategy Games! And More Vector Art!

Its officially available now! John Nyquist’s first Actionscript 3 Strategy Game tutorial for CartoonSmart. You can work through the lessons using Flash, Flash Builder (Flex 4 if you want to call it that still) or Flash Develop. All three of those are perfectly fine because this is primarily an Actionscript 3 tutorial, and it is [...]

Flash comes to the MacBook…wait, what?

So I was kinda tapped out this Monday morning for anything to post up here on the blog and did what I always do when there’s nothing else going on but the rent, I googled “Adobe” and looked under News. Well here’s something I didn’t know. The Macbook Air did NOT have Flash preinstalled on [...]

Another taste of Flash on an iOs device

Well, I thought I’d share this, but I’m not gambling $14.99 myself to test it out. Here’s what this article says the iLIVEx X11 Emulator does… StarNet enhances its iLIVEx X11 emulator for iPad with the ability to automatically display the Firefox web browser. Now users can run flash video on iPads. And also… Viewing [...]

My first Flash-made iPhone App

I call it No-Face Smiley Face. And the great thing about this app is that seeing a screengrab of it is an identical experience to playing it. So if you don’t own an iPhone, you aren’t missing anything. Okay, so I’ll admit this is the first time I experimented with using CS5 to create an [...]

The Experts have their say on HTML5

ActiveTuts has a great article today. Or compilation really of different industry experts and their thoughts on HTML5, Flash and more. Here’s an excellent clipping from Keith Peters…. I think the whole argument of technology X vs. technology Y is stupid and childish and anyone who gets all defensive about their technology – or offensive [...]

Flash + Airplanes = Cool

Here’s pretty sweet Flash piece someone just showed me. Takes a while to load, but its worth a look. Actually I just checked the size, its only 2.2MB, so I’m wondering if their server is a little slow to deliver. Or maybe my connection is slow. Or time itself is slowing. Anyway, good work…

Mickey cooked some bad cookies

Welp, Disney is getting sued for tracking people apparently…. Walt Disney’s internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe’s Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors. I know almost nothing about this other than those words above, but [...]